adjective 1. harsh; grating: a rasping voice.noun 2. a tiny piece of material removed by rasping or scraping: raspings of sawed wood. 3. raspings, dry bread crumbs. [rasp, rahsp] /ræsp, rɑsp/verb (used with object) 1. to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument. 2. to scrape or rub roughly: The glacier rasped the valley floor. 3. to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves. 4. to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an answer.verb (used without object) 5. to scrape or grate. 6. to make a grating sound.noun 7. an act of rasping. 8. a rasping sound. 9. a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth. 10. (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation. /ˈrɑːspɪŋ/adjective 1. (esp of a noise) harsh or grating; rough /rɑːsp/noun 1. a harsh grating noise 2. a coarse file with rows of raised teethverb 3. (transitive) to scrape or rub (something) roughly, esp with a rasp; abrade 4. to utter with or make a harsh grating noise 5. to irritate (one’s nerves or senses); grate (upon) /rɑːsp/noun 1. an informal or Scot word for raspberry v.

mid-13c., “to scrape,” from Middle Dutch raspen and from Old French rasper (Modern French râper) “to grate, rasp,” which is perhaps from a West Germanic source (cf. Old English gehrespan) akin to the root of raffle. Vocalic sense is from 1843. Related: Rasped; rasping. n.

“coarse file,” 1540s, from Middle French raspe (Modern French râpe), from Old French rasper “to rasp” (see rasp (v.)).

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